Radios Appear — Lyrics

Radio Birdman lyrics - Radios Appear

Courtesy of Deniz Tek & PolyGram Music Australia

Taken from the Vivien Johnson book

MURDER CITY NIGHTS

Moving to the sound of the midnite masses
Fighting off terminal seventies stasis
Cruising down Woodward gotta find me some action
Looking for a lover with a power reaction

Murder city nights, oh yeah
Murder city nights, oh yeah
Murder city nights, all right

Hanging on the edge of my self control
Looking in the mirror for the highway patrol
My brain is wired down to my hand
Gotta keep movin' 'cos I know I'm a man

Murder city nights, oh yeah
Murder city nights, oh yeah
Murder city nights, all right

ANGLO GIRL DESIRE

Then you're walking down the street
You never know I'm around
But I am there and I'm watching
Everywhere you go
I'm the eye from outer space
And my hand is on your life
Your eyes reflect reflections
Of fires burning in my heart

Hey Dog
At night you hear my screams
From my distant lonely world
You feel my eyes touch yours
So lightly now
You can't be there where I am
Cos I'm there all by myself
Location 999
End of the night

Hey girl I watched you dancing
To the rocking bands
I have seen you do the Pop
And the moving change
You will never be the same
When your eyes meet mine
I'll be ready to show you
What You need to live

MAN TITH GOLDEN HELMET

Man with Golden Helmet
Drinks water from the faucet
Man with Golden Helmet
Drinks water from the faucet

Stares across the hall
At the pictures on the wall
Of hieroglyphic scrawl
And no one cares at all
That he is waiting

Man with Golden Helmet
Drinks water from the faucet
Man with Golden Helmet
Drinks water from the faucet

Walks on down the street
Leather boots, leather coat
Gloves of shining leather
Sidewalks and gutters and freezing weather
Empty streets full of no one

Man with Golden Helmet
Drinks water from the faucet
Man with Golden Helmet
Drinks water from the faucet

Plays with tiny children
On his way home from work
He doesn't wear a smirk
He can't revive it
Having different kinds of fun
With fourteen ancient nuns
Under circling sun
And his wonderful collection of guns
He's the top man in the language department

DESCENT INTO THE MAELSTROM

Took a ride on the ocean
Started swimming out
Lost sight of land
Time ran out
Arms getting heavy
Exhaustion's setting in
Waves getting bigger
Life's getting thin
My brain was screaming
My mind said no
My mouth was bleeding
Said you gotta go

Hit the high side
Monster/wave
Buried at sea
In an early grave
Free fall dive
Thousand foot pit
Cliffs of water turning
Adrenachrome hit

Death-like animals
The death of slaves
The death of humans
Getting sucked away
Ships trucks and planes
A million screaming heads
Agonised moaning
From the island of the dead

I'm going down
Into the maelstrom
Going down
Gonna drown

Alive alive alive

I'm alive

MONDAY MORNING GUNK

I was lying on my bed
Feelin' like I was nearly dead
Got my soul on fire
Mama you can't mean it

I was bleeding from my pride
I was bleeding from my eyes
Got my soul on ice
Mama you can cream it

Early morning rise
Got my guts in my eyes
Got my soul on fire
All right

DO THE POP

Come on baby it's time to move
You been saying there's nothing to do
Don't be afraid of bustin' out of your cage
Gonna cruise around gonna burn up the stage

Do the Pop

Come on baby I said squeeze the weez
On your feet or on your knees
So messed up I'm gonna do some dives
Gonna do the Pop gonna burn alive

We saw the Stooges and the MC5
Drove themselves insane alive
Nova, blow torch, A-bomb eyes
The Pop's the way, the truth and the light

LOVE KILLS

She smokes long cigarettes
Ashes on her jeans
Came out of Chicago
Looking cold and mean
She said nothing's there
Nothing left to try
Drinking down at the old Town Bar
I told her when I lied

Drove out to her sister's place
Out on Island Park Drive

Love kills your mind
Love kills your time
Love kills the film on your eyes

Sinking in her grey eyes
Singing 'We Will Fall'
Staring out the hotel window
At the pictures in the hall
Driving out to Detroit Metro
The snow driving on the wind
The sky was grey and white
The road was to the end

Ice was flying through my eyes
My heart was cold as sin

Love kills your mind
Love kills your time
Love kills the film on your eyes

HAND OF LAW

Fear and terror, watch out boy
The sun is getting low
After sundown we'll be ready
And who could ask for more

On the third day of the seventh month
Is when we'll ride the highway
Night descends, daylight ends
And like the light we'll fly

Hand of law is coming down
Hand of law is coming down
Hand of law is on us now
Hand of law is on us now

Black Killers, Earl Flinns,
Demons from the sea
Midnight train, self insane
Man of mystery

Gonna all burn now, do you hear
In a nuclear flame
You're gonna never be the same
Cos you're gonna be rearranged

All the mirrors sucking people through
Down to an unknown world
All the fears that you ever knew
Are alive in that world

It's coming from the nor nor west
The endless eye warns
A hole in the sky mirrors (pronounced 'meres')
And the light that never never warms
Hand of law is on us now

NEW RACE

There's gonna be a new race
Kids are gonna start it up
We're all gonna mutate
Kids are saying yeah hup

Yeah hup
Really gonna punch you out

We're sick of waking up late
Gotta get some control
The kids are gonna mutate
From an endless roll

Scared of circular time
It keeps faking us out
Kids are gonna eject
Cos now it's time to punch out

WHAT GIVES

My heart rips open 'cause you're my all
Staring at my blank white wall
The old clock is getting heavy-handed
Waiting for a plane that never landed

What gives
That you gonna do

Feel my hand across your lips
Got a P38 with a loaded clip
I'll do anything that I could
I'd go running out in the frozen woods
For you

So What gives What gives What gives
What you gonna do

NON-STOP GIRLS

Seven Four, taking me away
I'll never make it back to the USA
50 million horsepower J-84
Slammed my head through a one-way door

Oh no I can't use non-stop girls
Oh no I just can't use you
Cos all my love is gone
To another world
Oh no I can't use non-stop girls

Non-stop girls
Flashing in our lives
Non-stop girls
Burning in our minds
Non-stop girls
You just can't be beat
Bleeding heart
In a window seat

ALOHA STEVE AND DANNO

McGarrett's on the line to Danno
We gotta pick up this guy
Put out an APB
Not much time to tell you why

Governor says it's top priority
Washington says so too
Tell Chin to get here fast
5-0 is on the move

Steve I want to say thank you
For all you've done for me
My night is dark and empty
When you're not on TV

There's an agent in the field
I want to have him tailed
He's been staying at the Hilton
Yeah should be staying in the gaol

He's working for the KGB
And here's his dossier
Those Reds won't be happy
Till this guy gets his way

Chorus

Dark spectre of espionage
Hangs over fair Hawaii
McGarrett's one cool guy
The guilty will not go free

Steve and Danno they made the scene
The agent had done his deed
Caught with a stiff and a silenced gun
Said Book him Danno Murder One

HIT THEM AGAIN

Manipulations flashing out my hands
I can't show you all my plans
Until I activate you, you can't see
That's all right, all right by me

It's all right It's all right
Let's hit and run again tonite

40 strikes come over every day
Death from the skies blowing us away
Fire melts helmet and skull within
We gotta go behind the lines and hit 'em again

It's all right, it's all right
Let's hit and run again tonite

Now if you run babe you ain't got a chance
That Laser eye will freeze you with one glance
Burnin' wind howlin' at my door
Like Hamburg babe circa '44

It's all right, it's all right
Let's hit and run again tonite